Article: Do you want to live forever? Buy a chair.(ECONOMICALLY SPEAKING)

Sir Edward Robert Peacock was the son of a minister in Glengarry County, Ontario. He made a lot of money in business and figured out how to live forever. His story might interest Northern Ontario Business' most successful and civic-minded readers.

Peacock graduated from Queen's University in 1894. After a short career as a teacher, he became a manager for Dominion Securities, then a vice-president of Brazilian Light and Traction (the forerunner of BRASCAN), then president of the Mexican Light and Power Company, a director of the Bank of England, a partner in Barings, European director of the CPR and the Hudson's Bay Company, and a director of the Rhodes Trust. ...

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